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How many software developers can, in a reasonable timeframe, buy a house in the place they live and support alone a family of four people? Then the truly insane
by bradleyjg 3y ago
How many software developers can, in a reasonable timeframe, buy a house in the place they live and support alone a family of four people? Then the truly insane salaries you are talking about are not really that insane.
House prices have gone absolutely nuts in the last forty years. We are witnessing the largest generational transfer of wealth in the history of the world.
Healthcare and education have also experienced broken cost growth.
But those are problems for everyone that’s not on the winning side of these giant money sucks.
It doesn’t change the fact that ratio of programmer salary to median salary has been moving way up. It’s both true that we are doing relatively much better and we are getting screwed by costs just like everyone else.
- ajmurmann 3y ago> It doesn’t change the fact that ratio of programmer salary to median salary has been moving way up. This has been true up to about a year ago
- bradleyjg 3y agoI’m in the industry too and would like to see it resume. But this small reversal is not why we feel poor. That’s not a programmer specific issue. The causes of that are things we can band together with people across many industries to fight. Like breaking the power of the land-owning gerontocracy.